Example sentences of "himself to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although born in the very purple of Whiggery , he displayed independence of judgement , and , in spite of his personal admiration for W. E. Gladstone ( tempered by a certain irreverence ) , he attached himself to the radical section of the Liberal Party . |
| 2 | It indicates that he is not content to confine himself to the small island of his own tradition and culture and consequently not recognize the significance of the spiritual insights of other religious traditions . |
| 3 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 4 | It was also a desire for therapy , a wish to subordinate himself to the specific kind of " scientific " discipline that , over the previous half-century , classical philology had everywhere become . |
| 5 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 6 | But the accused in London , Ontario , had not , as the judge stated , ‘ offered himself to the general public ’ . |
| 7 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 8 | Here , endears himself to the working scientist who tires of the seemingly endless efforts by historians to dig up some obscure individual who ‘ did it first ’ . |
| 9 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 10 | Secondly , if on the other hand he were completely to subordinate himself to the new Government his influence in Parliament and the country would quickly be eroded . |
| 11 | And then arrangements had to be made to transport his cats as well as himself to the new flat . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman must address himself to the new situation which is developing and in which there will be a single currency . |
| 13 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 14 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 15 | Richard Baxter 1615–1691 ) during fourteen years of pastoral ministry at Kidderminster gave himself to the pastoral care of some 800 families . |
| 16 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 17 | Peregrine , however , was there lying back in his chair and offering himself to the hot sun in rather a shameless way . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's appointed himself to the temporary monitoring team . |
| 19 | Jim Fleeting , the ebullient manager at a Kilmarnock club hungrier than most for promotion , offered himself to the fraternal elbow of big brother Bobby , the club chairman , and resigned . |
| 20 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 21 | Only in his own pieces ( all transcriptions of other composer 's works ) is he able to stretch himself to the outer limits of his technique . |
| 22 | And feeling them , he had stopped swimming , thrown a wordless curse at the sky , then surrendered himself to the black cold beneath the surface of the moat . |
| 23 | He dragged himself to the faceless body . |
| 24 | Introducing himself to the woman-form receptionist in a uniquely unforgettable way , Lennon insouciantly gained access to the building . |
| 25 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 26 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 27 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 28 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 29 | He resigned himself to the single thought , that he would not see her again . |
| 30 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |